Until now no study has demonstrated that insomnia is associated with mortality.
A new study at Penn State College of Medicine found an elevated risk of death in men with a complaint of chronic insomnia and an objectively measured short sleep duration. The results suggest that public health policy should emphasize the diagnosis and appropriate treatment […]

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A new study at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash found treatment helped improve sleep quality for U.S. soldiers who suffered from migraine headaches after returning from the war in Iraq.
The study findings are scheduled to be presented Wednesday at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society (AHS), held in Los Angeles.

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Researchers from the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) report that men with moderate to severe sleep apnea were nearly three times more likely to have a stroke than men without sleep apnea or with mild sleep apnea. Researchers say the risk of stroke appears in men with mild sleep apnea and rises with the severity […]

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According to recent results from new research supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with an increased risk of stroke in middle-aged and older adults, especially men.
The researchers found overall, sleep apnea more than doubles the risk of stroke in […]

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Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden aimed to evaluate whether treatment with a low energy diet reduces moderate and severe obstructive sleep apnoea in obese men. Thay have found that weight loss reduces obstructive sleep apnoea in obese men, with the greatest effect seen in patients with severe disease.
Obstructive sleep apnoea is a common […]

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A new study conducted by researchers from the University de Montreal, its affiliated Hospital du SacreCoeur de Montreal Sleep Disorders Centre and the University Laval has found that people who suffer from insomnia have heightened nighttime blood pressure, which can lead to cardiac problems.
Whereas blood pressure decreases in regular sleepers and gives their heart a […]

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Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome affects 4-5% of middle-aged men.
According to a study at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Niederlande, a high percentage of these patients suffer from additional urological diseases such as erectile dysfunction, nocturia, overactive bladder, and urgency incontinence. Awareness of these correlations is crucial for diagnosis and treatment of affected patients to avoid unnecessary […]

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A recent study at Arizona State University investigated insomnia, depression, and distress in men with prostate cancer.
Findings indicated that many men had insomnia and depression with a moderate level of distress. Half the men with clinically significant insomnia also had clinically significant depression. Significant relationships were found among insomnia, depression, and distress. Implications for research […]

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The U.S. researchers, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, concluded men who snore loudly may have a shorter life expectancy than those who sleep quietly.
Heart seems to be the most common disease among those who died, the journal PLoS Medicine reports.
The link was only apparent with middle-aged men, but the researchers said further studies […]

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According to a report in the June 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In addition, different types of breathing problems appear more closely associated with different categories of arrhythmia, increasingly severe sleep-related breathing disorders in older men appear to be associated with a greater risk of abnormal heart rhythms […]

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